Posts Tagged ‘testing’

I hadn’t seen this tool before so I figured I would share. Swaks is the swiss army knife SMTP according to the homepage.

I’ve covered testing email from the command line before but this tool sure makes it easier.

swaks --to nick@tld --from nick@tld
*** MX Routing not available: requires Net::DNS.  Using localhost as mail server
=== Trying localhost:25...
=== Connected to localhost.
<-  220 cmdln-laptop ESMTP Exim 4.69 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:23:24 -0500
 -> EHLO cmdln-laptop
<-  250-cmdln-laptop Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
<-  250-SIZE 52428800
<-  250-PIPELINING
<-  250 HELP
 -> MAIL FROM:<nick@tld>
<-  250 OK
 -> RCPT TO:<nick@tld>
<-  250 Accepted
 -> DATA
<-  354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
 -> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:23:24 -0500
 -> To: nick@tld
 -> From: nick@tld
 -> Subject: test Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:23:24 -0500
 -> X-Mailer: swaks v20061116.0 jetmore.org/john/code/#swaks
 ->
 -> This is a test mailing
 ->
 -> .
<-  250 OK id=1LuVJ6-0007ge-Jf
 -> QUIT
<-  221 cmdln-laptop closing connection
=== Connection closed with remote host.

Being able to send email manually seems to be a bit of a lost art. It is extremely handy to know how to use telnet to send email for testing procmail filters, and any other part of your mail system. It can also be fun to spoof email to a friend or co-worker. Read on for a quick run down. (more…)